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LBM-BPANN based coke mapping of solid acid catalyst in fructose conversion
Siwei Liu
Xiangqian Wei

Siwei Liu

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September 17, 2023
Mapping and understanding humins coking during carbohydrate conversion is crucial for improving solid catalyst systems. However, methods for mapping coking are still in need of development. In this study, a Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based Back-propagation artificial neural network (BPANN) reduced-order model (ROM) is developed to map humins distribution during the conversion process. The ROM reveals 3 configurations of intra-particle coking distribution (surface-focus, middle-layer-focus and central focus coking). Results indicate that the surface-focus configuration leads to a decreasing trend in the macroscopic coke accumulation rate with reaction cycles,, especially under extreme conditions (surface humins/central humins > 10). Depending on the proportion of HMF-derived humins and the Thiele modulus of the substrate, the proportion of three configurations varies with catalyst load, pellet size, and substrate concentration. The extreme surface-focus coking configuration can be determined by calculating the ideal humins density on pellet surface. Corresponding catalytic system design strategies are proposed.

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